Active Reading Strategies

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Active Reading Strategies

• From Glencoe Literature The Readers Choice
  Course Four

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Predict

• Make educated guesses about what will happen next
  by combining clues in the story with what you
  already know.
• Predicting helps you anticipate events and stay
  alert to the less obvious parts of the story.

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Predict

• Say to yourself
• I think the title might mean
• I think the character is going to
• Now I think he or she will
• My first prediction doesnt match what I read.
  Now I think

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Connect

• Draw parallels between the people, places, and
  events in the story and the people, places, and
  events in your own life.

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Connect

• Ask yourself
• How would the main character act in my situation?
• How would I act in the main characters
  situation?
• When have I felt the same way as this character?
• What parts of my life does this remind me of?
• What other stories does this remind me of?

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Question

• Ask yourself questions to clarify the story as
  you go along.

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Question

• Ask yourself
• Do I understand what Ive read so far?
• Why did he or she say that?
• Whats going on here?
• What does this mean?

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Visualize

• In your mind, form pictures of what is happening
  in the story.
• Pay attention to the details the writer gives
  you, and make them part of your reading
  experience.

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Visualize

• Ask yourself
• How does this scene, character, or object look?
• Who is in this scene?
• Where are the characters in relation to one
  another and to their surroundings?

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Evaluate

• Form opinions and make judgments about the story
  while you are reading--not just after you have
  finished.

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Evaluate

• Ask yourself
• Does this turn of events make sense?
• Is this character believable?
• What is particularly effective about this
  writers style?
• Do I agree with this idea?

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Review

• Pause every page or two to think about your
  reading.
• Summarize events in a story or rephrase difficult
  language to help you understand and to remember
  what youve read.

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Review

• Say to yourself
• So far,
• In other words,

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Respond

• Respond while you are reading.
• React to different parts of the story.

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Respond

• Say to yourself
• I like this character because
• Id like to ask the writer why
• I wish I could see this place because